The DiCecco Daily Special: Uar Bernard's Mentor Explains Why Nigerian Prospect Is "Built For This"
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
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4.6 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, he catches up Javon Gopie, an NFL defensive line consultant who works with the league's International Pathway Program and is the mentor for Eagles seventh-round pick Uar Bernard, a prospect from Nigeria who hasn't played any football at any level.
A great conversation between Andrew and Javon to go inside Bernard's readiness to compete at the NFL and what drives him to play!
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening, everyone. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome into a special edition of DeCecho Daily. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm your host, Eagles Beat reporter Andrew DeCecho. |
| 0:17.9 | And look, this is a very special episode, and it's a special episode because I'm |
| 0:22.6 | joined by NFL consultant, founder of Sack House. You may know him as the SACC sensei, and that |
| 0:30.0 | would be Javon Gopi, who's been kind enough to join me for a few minutes. Javon, I appreciate |
| 0:34.3 | you carving out a few minutes. And I appreciate, appreciate an opportunity to get on here, Andrew. I love what you do, man. So I'm super excited about it. Well, I appreciate that. And what the folks should know is that you and I never stopped working. Because once I caught wind of the testing numbers at the HBCU showcase and IPP Pro Day, I told myself, I got to learn more about who are, Bernard. |
| 0:56.6 | So what did I do? |
| 0:57.7 | You and I got in contact, and it was Easter Sunday where we got on a call. |
| 1:01.4 | Always, yeah. |
| 1:02.1 | And, yeah, so we're always working, and you provided some really good background. |
| 1:06.7 | And we're going to get a little bit deeper into that. |
| 1:08.8 | But first, a little bit about yourself. |
| 1:11.6 | Sure. |
| 1:12.4 | So, man, I think this is year 14 for me, 12 or 14. |
| 1:18.0 | I lose count, man. |
| 1:19.3 | But I've been so fortunate and blessed over the past 12 years to work with just so many |
| 1:23.6 | phenomenal guys, man. |
| 1:24.6 | And, you know, I truly don't like to take any credit for all the work that I've done |
| 1:28.9 | because these guys have made it easy. But it's been fun. But I've been super blessed to, again, work with so many great guys over the years, you know, from pro bowlers, even Hall of Famers. And it's been a fun ride, man. I got in a training not too long after I got out of college. and I like to think, I said before, that my college teammates were my first clients, because |
| 1:49.0 | I was always the teammate who was bringing guys in later on after a day, after practice |
| 1:53.0 | to put us some extra work on the weekends. |
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